Introduction: The Challenge of Organizing Genius

Questions

• How does privacy, isolation, and accountability interact in the formation of creative and productive groups?
• How should exclusion/gate-keeping and inclusion/diversity be balanced?
• How can environments and institutions drive purpose?
• Are creative and productive groups inherently transient?

Reading

• Warren Bennis and Patricia Biederman, Organizing Genius
  • Introduction (1p)
  • The end of the Great Man (~16pp)
• Michael Farrell, Collaborative Circles
  • Introduction (6pp)
  • Collaborative Circles and Creative Work (19pp)

Notes:

Our Hypotheses